End-gate



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D. L. FUNDERBURGH.

END GATE.

Nb. 369383. Pa tented Aug. 30, 1887.

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IDAVID L. FUNDERBURGH, OF SALEM, NEBRASKA.

END-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,283, dated August30, 1887.

Application filed May 17, 1881. Serial No. 238,512.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID L. FUNDER nU'ReH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Salem, in the county of Richardson and Stateof Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEnd-Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,oleauand exact description of theiuvention, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis speciiieation, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of therear end of a wagon-box provided with my improved end-gate. Fig. 2 is asimilar view of the box, showing the end-gate tilted down. Fig. 8 is aview from the under side of the box, showing the bracket supporting theendgate; and Fig. 4 is a side view of the end of the box.

Similar numerals of reference indicate cor responding parts in all thefigures.

My invention has relation to that class of end-gates for wagon-boxeswhich may be tilted down at the upper edge to form a chute fordischarging the contents of the wagon; and it consists in the improvedconstruction and combination of parts of such an end-gate, as hereiuafter more fully described and claimed.

In theaccompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the bottom of thewagon-box, and the numerals 2 indicate the side-boards of the same, andthese parts may be of any desired construction, forming no part of theinvention. The end-gate 3 is provided with two flanges, i, at its sideedges, the outer ends of the flanges being slightly rounded, as shown at5, and the inner or lower ends of the flanges are extended to formtongues or lips 6, which rest against the inner sides of the projectingends 7 of a transverse bar, 8, at the rear end of the bottom upon theunder side of the same. A flat metallic bar, 9, is provided upon itsunder side with triangular flanged boxes or brackets 10, and is securedto the rear edge of the bottom and to the rear face of the crossbar bymeans of bolts 11,passing through the vertical back plates, 12, of thesebrackets,and the lower beveled edge, 13, of the end-gate rests upon thisplate, tilting outward with its beveled side.

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Two eyes, 11-1, are secured by means of lips 15 to the rear edges of theside-boards near the upper edges of the same, and two rods, 16, arepivoted with their hooked or eyed ends 17 to these eyes, havingtransverse handles or flat eyes 18 upon their outer ends, and these rodspass through perforations 19 in the endgatc near the side edges of thesame, the perforations fitting upon the eyes when the gate is tiltedupward, the eyes projecting through the same.

A curved flat spring, 20, is secured with its lower end upon the outerside of the end-gate and has an outwardly-curved upper end and aninwardly-bulged portion, with which it bears against the gate,and therods are slipped into the space between the outward bulge of this springwhen the gate is folded up and the rods folded upon the face of thegate, crossing each other within the spring. In this mannor the gatewill be held locked in its closed position, and when it is desired totilt the gate down,either for the purpose of increasing the capacity ofthe box or for the purpose of shoveling out the contents of the box, therods are slipped upward out of the curved spring, and the gate may slidewith its perforations upon the rods,tilting down, the transverse handlesof the rods serving to stop the tilt of the gate and to support the gatein its down position.

The gate will rest with its lower or inner end upon the bracket plate orbar, rocking with its beveled portion upon the same, and thedownwardly-projecting lips or tongues of the flanges of the gate willbear against the upper or inner inner sides of the projecting ends ofthe cross-bar, holding the gate in its place when it is tilted down orup.

It will be seen that when the gate is tilted down and the wagon isloaded with bags or larger articles, which may rest upon the endgatewithout sliding off, the capacity of the wagonbox is increased, and whenthe wagon is loaded with a loose substance such as grain in bulk, sand,dirt, or any other similar substance-the end-gate may form a convenientscoopboard or board for shoveling off the contents with greater casethan by shoveling them off the closed box with the gate closing the end,and when the process of shoveling off the contents is commenced therewill be no danger of wastingauy of the contents when the gate'is letdown, as there would be if the v gate had to be entirely removed.

Having thus described myinvention,I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- The combination of a Wagon-boxhaving a cross-bar under the rear edge of its bottom, having projectingends, a fiat bar or plate formed with triangular boxes or bracketssecured to the rear edge of the bottom and to the cross-bar by bolts inthe boxes or brackets, an end-gate resting with its beveled lower edgeupon the said plate and having flanges upon the side edges fitting withtongues upon the inner or rear ends over the ends of the cross-bar, acurved and bulged spring upon the rear face of the end-gate, eyessecured to the ends of the side-boards and projecting throughperforations in the gate, and bars secured with their eyed ends in thesaid eyes and having transverse handles at the outer end, being heldcrossing each other by the spring, as and for the purpose shown and setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID L. FUNDERBURGH.

Witnesses:

G. W. SHEELY, HENRY HEIKES.

